Mind is a MetaphorMetaphors Database by Brad Pasanekhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors
"That frequently happens; and when once a false idea is impressed, it is very difficult to erase it, particularly at your age; as you are not yet capable of distinguishing the false from the true."Work: The Conversations of Emily [Conversations d'Émilie]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/17967
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/17967"Before I had seen her, nothing cou'd be equal to my Ambition; but now her Charms have made so deep an Impression in my Heart, that all other Passions have submitted to my transcendent Love."Work: The History of John of Bourbon, Prince of Carencyhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22599
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22599"Give me Leave to tell you, cry'd the young Prince, that when a Heart is touch'd with a powerful Passion, it's incapable of receiving any other Impression."Work: The History of John of Bourbon, Prince of Carencyhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22592
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22592"The Condition I am in, Madam, continu'd she, has not made any dishonourable Impression on my Heart."Work: The History of John of Bourbon, Prince of Carencyhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22591
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22591"Assure him from me, that my Heart never receiv'd an Impression before."Work: The History of John of Bourbon, Prince of Carencyhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22589
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22589"We us'd to see but little Company, according to the Custom of Spain; but my Father having receiv'd into his House a young Gentleman of a distinguish'd Family in Toledo, whose Name is Don Ramire of Castro, a secret Sympathy dispos'd his Heart and mine, to receive Impressions for each other."Work: The History of John of Bourbon, Prince of Carencyhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22587
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22587"How difficult a Task will it be, to make an Impression on that unpractis'd Heart?"Work: The History of John of Bourbon, Prince of Carencyhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22585
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22585"I must confess, said she, I am no ways alarm'd to hear of the Prince's Passion for a fine Woman, and am vain enough to flatter my self, that when he sees me I shall have it in my Power to deface the Impression she might have made on his Heart."Work: The History of John of Bourbon, Prince of Carencyhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22582
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22582"This noble passion is indeed always engraved upon their hearts; but imagination and education mould it a thousand ways."Work: Persian Letters [Lettres persane]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22125
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22125"There are few women abandoned enough to go this length; they all bear in their hearts a certain impression of virtue, naturally engraved on them, which though their education may weaken, it cannot destroy."Work: Persian Letters [Lettres persane]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22118
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22118